Healthcare Reform - Too Much Emotion and Not Enough Facts

The Health Care legislation that is moving through congress has a multitude of dissenters and again as many supporters. What it does not have is a lot of people who understand just what it really covers and what the final result will be.

The claims regarding the bills total cost over the next ten years are anywhere from $3.9-Trillion dollars to a net savings of almost $1-Billion. I have no idea and I have been following this legislation for several months.

What I do know is that too many people have politicized this legislation.

On the right, groups are making ridiculous claims of the associated high costs and the loss of our great independent health care system. The majority of these claims simply state that the legislation is bad because it comes from the liberals. No informed, fact-based information is provided. It is just Socialize Medicine! This incidentally is exactly what the Veterans Administration hospital system really is.

On the other side of the aisle, equally vociferous claims would have you believe that people are dying on the street corners because our health care is not available to every person in the country are just as absurd. Many believe the argument that since the conservatives are opposed to changes in health care they should be in favor of it.

One thing is obvious. This country needs to have a health care system that is better than what we have and it has to be a system that we can afford. Insurance by its very definition means some people are going to be paying for the health care of others. Those who are opposed to that principle need to understand how automobile insurance and home owners insurance works.

The rhetorical rants and raves on both sides of this issue simply diminish our ability to understand the problem and make rational decisions about solutions. Probably what our political leaders want!